OCASP Farmer's Cooperative

The photo was taken in the Chagres National Park in the village of San Juan de Pequeni in the Republic of Panama. The individuals in the picture are members of the OCASP Sustainable Agriculture Cooperative that produces organic coffee and produce along with Peace Corps Response Volunteer (PCRV) Jacob Slusser. The picture illustrates the start of a small-scale tree nursery that was established with the help of the PCRV in order to improve shade-coffee production and reforest degraded areas of the farm. The cooperative members learned how to identify native tree species, collect seeds, establish and manage a nursery and plant the trees.